1970
Soquel, CA On October 28 the Santa Cruz grand jury indicted John Linley
Frazier,"The Tarot Card Killer" on five counts of murder. On 10-19-70,
Dr. Victor Ohta, his wife, their two sons aged 11 and 12 years, and Dr.
Ohta's secretary were found murdered at the Ohtas' hilltop mansion
outside Soquel. Police discovered a strange note left on the windshield
of Dr. Ohta's car. It said "World War 3" had begun, and warned that
"From this day forward" anyone who "misuses the natural environment"
will "suffer the penalty of death by the people of the free universe,"
and that "materialism must die or mankind will." The note was signed,
"Knight of Wands, Knight of Cups, Night [sic] of Pentacle and Knight of
Swords." which are all cards in the tarot deck. Friends of Frazier
tipped police they suspected he was the killer based on a prior
conversation. You'd think being a card reader he could have
forseen getting caught. (Raising
Hell: An Encyclopedia of Devil Worship and Satanic Crime
by
Michael Newton )

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1970 Salem,
MO Gavin and
Yvonne Frost write a book titled The
Witch's Bible which was later re-titled The Good Witch's Bible.
The book appears to have been a textbook of sorts for their mail order
Wicca course. The Frosts started The Church of Wicca in 1968 in Salem
Missouri, (no, not Massachusettes). While no crimes were broken in
publishing the book, and the book itself is not illegal , it does
describe some things which might land people in jail if they tried
them, and many of the things described might seem to have alterior
motives behind them. At first glance, the manual seems to be geared not
only toward wifeswapping and open marriages but also pedophiles.

One
shocking item is a ritual for
deflowering a girl upon entering puberty that uses a homemade dildo
shaped like an ahnk. The girl is supposed to be instructed to use it
upon herself, gradually working her way up to bigger sized dildos. The
book says that girl should be given a "demonstartion" on how to use the
ankh/dildo by another member, and the child is to be told if she has
difficulties performing the task the coven's high priest or her own
father will assist. Using a dildo on a child (ecspecially one's own)
must certainly be illegal, not to mention just plain perverted. The
Frosts claim no one has ever tried the ritual, but it the book's author
gives very specific instructions as to positioning of the girl's body
during insertion, which sounds almost as though he'd participated
in such events. It seems strange that the deflowering ritual
is
still kept in the later editions of the book considering the
controversy it generated for the Frosts years later if it's supposedly
never used as the Frosts maintain.

The secrecy that is
part of Wicca could
easily conceal such acts. The Witch's Bible also says the child should
decide on the method of contraception, which makes it obviously clear
the child is being prepared for use in sex rituals. Sex with underage
children is most definately illegal! The book also says children are
not the property of the parents but belong to the coven...making suchs
groups sound like cults. It also says children should be told
everything about sex, with no "birds and bees" lest they grow up like
"sexually repressed perverts as Christian children do" It says covens
should create a schedule for rotating the children to live with other
members...one can only wonder for what purpose! The book even says it's
hoped the child's first sexual expirence will someday be with the other
coven members present as part of a Wiccan sex ritual.Right, no
perverison going there.

It seems pedophiles would have
a field day in
thse types of covens. The Frosts were some of the pioneers of the
American Wicca movement and helped write the 1974 Wiccan "Principals of
Belief", but nowadays they are the black sheep of Wicca and most
Wiccans denounce them. In the 1990's, the word "Good" was added to the
book's title, although there is little if any good in it. The book
seemed to go completely unoticed during the so-called "Satanic Panic"
in the 80's and 90's, oddly enough. Blessed Be! (The Witch's Bible
later retitled The Good
Witch's Bible by Gavin and
Yvonne Frost)

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1970
Provincetown, Mass. Satanist Antone Costa was imprisoned for the
mutliation and murder of a young woman, and was suspected of
other killings. A follower of black magic, even in prison Costa stocked
his cell with books on ritual magic, including Lavey's Satanic Bible.
Four years into his life sentence, he commits suicide by hanging
himself. (Raising Hell: An
Encyclopedia of Devil Worship and Satanic
Crime by Michael Newton )

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1970
Orange County, California - Steven Hurd and four other California
Satanists are charged with two murders involving ritual dismemberment
and cannibalism. Hurd was facinated by the occult from childhood, and
by age 20 was a drug addict and drifter. While living outdoors, Hurd
recruits 3 other young men and a 31 y.o. woman to form a Satanic cult.
The group decides to head out to San Fransisco to get marching orders
from Anton LaVey (who would have probably been less than thrilled to
recieve them).

Along the way, Hurd's cult
sacrificed a man
and woman, mutilated both bodies, and dumped them in secluded spots to
be found by hikers, and leaving the Orange County police and residents
of Orange County in a state of outrage and panic. Police discovered
evidence that led them to Hurd and his other four
followers. They were indicted on first degree
murder
charges. Hurd is declared insane and remains in a state hospital while
his accomplices are duly convicted and sentenced to life.

He was paroled in 1985. (AP)

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1970
Big Sur, California Stanley Dean Baker and Harry Stroup were arrested
by authorites when they both produced human finger bones
& a
Satanic Bible to California Highway Patrol while being question about a
hit and run accident. Baker & Stroup admited not only to the
hit
and run, but also to being cannibals and Satanists and were
on
their way to San Fransisco to see "the head devil guy". Both
claimed to be members of the "Four Pi" cult (which may have
been
another name or possibly an offshoot of the Scientology/Satanist
offshoot called "The Process/The Church of The Final Judegment/The
Family").

Baker
& Stroup admited to the
murder of Robert Salem, which was confirmed when bloody fingerprints
from the crime scene matched Baker's. Baker and Stroup alleged other
murders had taken place in the Santa Anna Mountains, south of Los
Angeles. In typical California legal fashion, California blew it's
chance to prosecute the two for their crimes over a technical error
(and thus investigate the other crimes of the mysterious "Four Pi "
cult...if it ever really even exited at all in the first place), but
the two both recieved life sentences in Montana. Baker continued to
recruit prisoners for Satan. Full moon time caused him to
howl on
all fours like a wolf. He became a model prisoner in an Illinois
prison, but still continued the Satanic path. In 1976 he was turned
down for membership in LaVey's Church of Satan. Go figure. (AP)

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1970
New Orleans, LA The House of Horrors wax museum on Bourbon Street lived
up to its name for one poor girl who was flogged and raped there.
Police arrested 18 year old Satanist Patricia Hall and three male
friends for the rape and cat-o'-nine-tails flogging of a teenage girl
at the wax museum. Hall claimed she had even been baptized at the
Church of Satan in San Fransisco by Anton LaVey himself, which of
course LaVey denied. Before the rape case went to trial, Hall was
extradicted to Florida for the stabbing death of a 66 y.o. man, tried,
convicted, and sentenced to life in prison. She has plenty of time to
read her copy of The
Satanic Bible
now. (Raising Hell: An Encyclopedia of Devil Worship and Satanic Crime
by Michael Newton )

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1971
Vineland, New Jersey A 20 y.o. man decided to graduate from sacrificing
hamsters to Satan to attempting to ressurect himself from the dead. So,
he had two friends duct tape him and push him into a lake. Instead of
rising from the dead he drowned, and his friends were charged with
murder in a well publicized case. (Raising Hell: An Encyclopedia of
Devil Worship and Satanic Crime by Michael Newton).

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1971 Gujarat, India - Rabari Bhika Sanga was
arrested by Indian police for the murder of a 4 year old boy. The boy
was sacrificed by Sanga to the Hindu goddess Mamai. Police say the boy
was the 15th case of human sacrifice in India within a three year
period, so far.(Fate Magazine, July 1975, pg 82)

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1972
Denver Colorado Police were called to investigate the break in and
theft of 13 choir robes from a curch in suburban Northglenn. The
investigation uncovered a cult of Teenage Satanists who called
themselves "The Black Magic Cult". The teens had stolen the robes for
use in Satanic rituals. The groups activities included animal
sacrifice, blood drinking, and drug abuse. The case was disposed of in
Juvenile Court. (Raising Hell: An Encyclopedia of Devil Worship and
Satanic Crime by Michael Newton )

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1973
Belfast, Ireland 10-year-old Brian McDermott disappeared from a
playground in Ormeau Park, south Belfast, On Sunday, 9-2-73. His badly
mutilated torso and arm were recovered from the River Lagan a week
later. Police believe black magic may have been the reason for the
murder, but haven't ruled out other possibilities. In 2003, police
re-opened the case, saying they now believed there were people in the
partk at the time of the murder who were afraid to come forward and
urged anyone who wished to pass information to police in confidence to
contact the UK Crimestoppers line at
0800 555111. (BBC News)

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1973
Waukegan,Illinois Serial killer and rapist Alton Coleman believed
Voodoo made him invulnerable to arrest. His favorite Loa was Baron
Samedi, the god of death. When his Voodoo didn't work, he tried threats
and violence against victims who testified against him. In 1973 he and
a buddy kidnapped, robbed & raped an old lady. She refused to
testify about the rape & Coleman served 2 years for robbery.
After
that, Coleman was arrested for yet another rape.

On the way to becoming a
serial killer,
Coleman gave the law many chances to put him away, but Alton
was
a smooth talker who could convince jurors that the police had the wrong
man in the days before DNA testing. Four rapes including his 12 y.o.
niece later (in between jail time) , Coleman murdered the next rape
victim in 1983. Coleman went underground to avoid capture,
still
believeing Voodoo would help him. Then Coleman with his girlfriend
Debra Brown went on a murderous 53-day rampage in 1985 starting with
the rape and murder of a 9 year old girl. From this brutal act to the
time they were arrested in Illinois the crime spree resulted in eight
homicides, seven rapes or more, three kidnappings and 14 armed
robberies.

His crime
career came to an end in
1985 when he was arrested, tried, and convicted and sentenced to death.
The sentence was eventually carried out in 2002. His girlfriend and
crime partner Debra Brown remains on death row. It's not surprising
fate for two people who worshipped the loa of death, I suppose. (AP)

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1973
Daytona Beach, FL In April Daytona Police found the battered and bloody
corpse of Ross "Mike" Cochran in a thicket of scrub pine and palmetto
outside town. Cochran had been killed by being cut with broken glass
and beaten with chains. Police discovered that Cocharan was the victim
of devil worshippers killed in a frenzied sacrificial ritual while
strapped to an altar as part of a "a Black Mass sacrifice".

The murder took place in the basement
of a
brokendown flophouse apartment dubbed "roach haven" by its young
residents. A week after the body was found, police arrested 10 young
beach drifters and charged them with first-degree murder in the
slaying. Cochran worked as a moneychanger in a pinball arcade and liked
to claim he was an undercover narcotics officer (he wasn't). This
boastful bluff may have been what made him a candidate for human
sacrifice. (Press
Telegram
Wed. June 1st 1973 Long Beach, Forida )

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1974
Washington D.C., The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Senate
Subcommittee on Health and Long Term Care held hearings on psychic
surgery. In these hearings, the FTC heard the testimonies of 48
witnesses and reviewed 134 exhibits. According to these witnesses, the
Filipino healers had defrauded their patients by palming small plastic
bags, which contained blood and tissue. The witnesses maintained that
the Filipino healers were defrauding their patients by producing these
plastic bags in sleight-of-hand simulations of surgery. Working from
the premise that Filipino healers were impersonating surgeons, thereby
practicing medicine illegally, police began setting up sting operations
in order to prosecute them.

In 1984, Congressional hearings chaired
by Claude
Pepper reviewed the files of five governmental agencies. These agencies
included the FTC, American Cancer Society, National Institutes of
Health, Department of Health & Human Sciences, and The American
Medical Society. This four-year review led to the conclusion that they
‘could find no evidence that psychic surgery was effective.’

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1974
Santa Clara, California 19 y.o. Arlis Perry is found murdered in a
ritualistic manner early in the A.M on Oct. 13th, 1974 at Stanford
Memorial Church. The Newlywed and Stanford University Student stopped
at a local church at 11:50 PM on 10-12-74. When she failed to return
home, her husband called police. Perry's body was found nude from the
waist down. The cause of death was an ice pick inserted in her skull
behind the ear. She had also been beaten and choked. She had been
violated with a 30 inch altar candle that was protruding from her. Her
blouse had been torn open and a candle was placed between her breasts,
held in place with her arms folded over. Her legs were spread open and
her jeans had been removed and draped over them to form a diamond
pattern. Arlis' husband was questioned by the police and cleared as a
suspect.

A few days
later (the night before
Hallowe'en), someone stole the marker from her grave in North Dakota,
police think it may have been the killer. Arlis had allegedly tried
witnessing to a group of Satanists in nearby Mandan a few weeks
earlier. Witnesses recall seeing a sandy haired young man entering the
church after the late night services. Arlis' co-workers recalled a
sandy blond haired man having an intense discussion with Arlis outside
of her workplace (a Palo Alto law firm) on Oct. 11th, 2 days before the
killing. The description given to police was similar to the man seen at
the church. Police obtained a paln print from the altar candle, but it
did not match any prints on file. In 1980 Minot newsman Jack Graham was
told by a local source that Perry’s murder involved “someone at
Stanford registered under a false name”.

The case still remains unsolved. If you have
information
on the killing, please contact the Santa Clara Police Dept at (408)
615-4700. (Raising Hell:
An
Encyclopedia of Devil Worship and Satanic Crime by Michael
Newton )

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1974
Deer Park, TX - On
Halloween night, 8 year old Timothy O'Brian went Trick Or treating with
his sister and three neighborhood kids accompanied by his father.
Before bedtime, Timothy ate one of the Pixie Sticks he had gotten as
part of his treats. He later started vomiting and convulsing. He died
en route to a local hospital less than an hour after ingesting the
candy. Police later determined the Pixie Stick contained cyanide. All
the other children had recieved the tainted Pixie Sticks as well, but
fortunatley none of them had eaten any. Police later tried to track
down the source of the poison candy from the houses O'Bryan went Trick
Or Treating, but found no one had given out giant Pixie Sticks. Local
residents were terrified a child killer was in their midsts. Upon
further investigation, police discovered the boy's father, Ronald Clark
O'Bryan, had taken out large insurance policiies on his children, but
not himself or his wife. He had also brought up the subject of cyanide
poisoning with several aquatiances prior to Hallowe'en. O'Bryan had
also tried to by cyanide at several local businesses.

Police arrested O'Brian for the murder of his son. O'Brayn had run into
financial problems and murdered his son for the insurance money to get
out of debt. He even gave poisoned candy to the other kids to avoid
suspicion. A trial ensued, and jury convicted him of murder, and he was
ironically sentneced to die on October 31st, 1982. After several
appeals and delays, he was eventually executed by lethal injection on
March 31st, 1984. Even though he swore he was innocent right up until
the end, he did finally issue a statement apologizing for all the
suffering he had caused.

This case isn't really an occult crime, but more of a real life urban
legend. Because of this monster, urban legends and unfounded rumors of
kids being killed by razor blades in apples, needles in candy bars, and
so forth continue to spread. There are PSAs on TV about only Trick or
Treating at trusted houses, and having an adult inspect the candy.
Hospitals even offer to x-ray kid's Hallowe'en candy for free, to
insure it's safe...although one wonders if a dose of radioactive x-rays
into the candy is much of a trade off. Conspiracy monger and Christian
comic book/tract publisher Jack Chick has scared away plenty of
Christians from participating in Hallowe'en, calling it "The Devil's
Birthday", and claiming your kids are bound to poisoned, or be
sacrified to Satan, or worse. There are currently no less than 9 titles
about Hallowe'en published by Chick. They contain such intellectual
fare as this:
The fact is, there have only been a handful of cases of people giving
out tainted candy, and even then it was to children they were related
to. And believe it or not, Satan has never come up from Hell wearing a
pumpkin and killed people with a chainsaw, as Jack chick seems to think
happens. Really. People giving out poisoned candy to random children on
Hallowe'en doesn't really happen. Ronald Clark O'Bryan will forever be
known as "the man who ruined Hallowe'en."

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1975
Dayton, Ohio John Todd, a.k.a. Lance Collins, opened an
occult
book store called the "Witches Cauldron" at 3140 Main Street. Todd told
the Dayton Daily News that he was the local Grand Magnus of the Wiccan
Church , that P.E.I Bonewits's AADL was "a legal arm of his church"
& that he had 5,000 members in his Wiccan church in
southwestern
Ohio (which was a lie).

Todd held a church charter from Gavin
and Yvonne
Frost's Church and School of Wicca. Todd's "coven" apparently consisted
mostly of underage girls. One 16 yr old apparently disclosed to the
police that Todd had conducted nude "witchcraft initiation rites" and
that Todd had forced her to engage in oral sex. Gavin Frost yanked his
charter when the cops got involved because because the Frost's maintian
the Church of Wicca doesn't endorse such things...although when you
read the stuff Frost perscribes for underage girls in his Witch's Bible, it
pales in
comaprison.

Todd responded to the charges
in a Dayton
newspaper that he was being harassed by the local police and said that
to protect himself "his covens will resort to their ultimate weapon-
witchcraft." Not surprisngly, his witchcraft worked about as good as
any Wiccan's, and he was arrested in Feb of '76 for corrupting a minor.
None other than Catholic hater and comic book maker Jack T. Chick help
spring him. Previously Todd had claimed he was an ex-Wiccan, saved by a
Chick tract, and then lectured in churches. Chick (whos own handle on
reality is questionable) included him in a comic book.

But in reality Todd was just a
delsuional man who
got involved with witchcraft after his "conversion", used dope, seduced
female church goers, and "mixed Christianity with Wicca" while he was
supposedly saved. An army psychiatrist once labeled Todd as having
"emotional instability with pseudologica phantastica', which means he
can't tell fantasy from reality. Todd re-converted to to Christianity
and resumed his lecture circuit as though nothing had happened, merely
calling his heading a Dayton coven "backsliding". By 1978, his lies
caught up with him, and he was exposed in the book The Todd Phenomenon.
His lecture circuit career was over. In 1990, he was convicted to 30
years in prsion for the brutal rape of a South Carolina woman and
molesting underage girls while a Karate instructor. He was paroled from
prison but deemed to insane to be released into the public. He died in
a mental asylum in 2007. (The
Todd Phenmenon)

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1976
New York City The summer of '76 will forever be known as "The summer of
Sam" thanks to serial killer David Berkowitz (and Spike Lee). Berkowitz
commited a series of murders with a .44 calliber handgun and put the
"cultural center of the universe" on hold. Before police caught him,
Berkowitz taunted police with several letters wih references drawn from
A.E. Waite's Book of
Black Magic and
of Pacts.
One of the murders took place outside the Elphas Disco, which he later
told police was chosen because the name was similar to Eliphas, as in
19th century occultist Eliphas Levi.

Eventually
Berkowitz is nabbed
through meticulous police detective work via a parking ticket that tied
him to the time and place of one of the murders. Berkowitz's
fingerprints match those on the letters he mailed to the police (so
much for taunting the cops to prove you're smarter than them. Der hey).

While in prison he
still continued to
read occult books, such as Peter Haining's Anatomy of Witchcraft.
He was said to have told a fellow inmate "I just can't stop thinking
about Satan!" Berkowitz would later claim in prison he was part of a
larger Satanic cult, but this may have been due to his own lunacy, or
some kind of ploy to free himself...or possibly even the truth. In
1997, Berkowitz told Eyewitness News producer Maury Terry that he had
other partners in crime, saying it was a murder conspiracy. Berkowitz
said the conspiracy began with satanic meetings at Untermeyer Park in
Yonkers. David Berkowitz, Convicted Killer (1997): “I mean, this was
not just something they were doing for any type of, necessarily,
pleasure, but that it was just part of an agenda. A very deep, covert
and hidden agenda. You know, they were about making war, and they were
about bringing some chaos into the world.” In fact, Berkowitz says
there were at least five other killers altogether, and they included
women.

His claim is supported by multiple
composite
sketches of suspects, most looking nothing like Berkowitz, and
descriptions of several cars at several scenes. Carl Denaro survived a
gunshot wound to the head in the Son of Sam shootings &
believes
there were others “I firmly believe that the police brass, and
certainly the detective working on it knew, knew then, and obviously
still know now that other people were involved. I think it was kind of
convenient, for them to, you know, one guy, one gun, one shooter, he’s
caught, it is all over.”, he said in an interview. Joseph Borrelli,
Retired Chief Of Detectives: “The best proof I have that he acted
alone: Has there been a homicide of a similar nature since? If this was
a cult, why didn’t, after he was arrested, why couldn’t they get
another individual under the same circumstances, and have that person
go out and do the killing. Because there never was a cult, and there
wasn’t anybody doing it, except him.”, said Borelli.

Berkowitz has
never given specific details
about the cult. When asked questions about the killings in a televised
interview with Terry, Berkowitz gives evasive answers like "Well, that
could be.", and "Well, that might have." More than likely, Berkowitz is
trying to once again make fools of the cops by giving them false info,
and probably hoping to strike some kid of ple deal in the process.

Speaking of The Process, author Terry
Maury made a
hypothetical
link between Berkowitz, Manson, The Zodiac Killer, and The Process
Church via a worldwide network of bikers, drug dealers, child
p0rnographers, snuff film producers and devil worshippers in his
book The
Ultimate Evil...but
that idea seems pretty far fetched. (AP, The Ultimate Evil by Maury Terry)

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1977 Nashville, TN
Satanism even finds it way to Hee Haw country. A Satanic cult is
discovered to be sacrificing cats and dogs and draining their blood.
The cult used an old unoccupied church as their "intellectual
decompression chamber". (Raising Hell: An Encyclopedia of
Devil
Worship and Satanic Crime by Michael Newton )

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1978 Los Angeles Tennessee ex-con Bobby Joe Maxwell killed 9 homeless
people between October and November, earning him the nickname “The
Skidrow Stabber” (not to be confused with The Skidrow Slasher,
mentioned elsewhere). He received life for the crimes. In
prison,
he told fellow inmates of his devotion to Satan, and that he had killed
the victims as human sacrifices. In one of the murders, the word
“Satan” was found written nearby with the victim’s blood. (Raising Hell: An Encyclopedia of
Devil
Worship and Satanic Crime by Michael Newton )

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1978 Ridegfield, CT Satanism and racism seem to go hand in hand. On
Christmas Eve, a cross was burned at the home of an inter-racial
couple. Police arrested 20 y.o. Robert Bryant who identified himself as
a member of “The Satanic Organization of Connecticut”, along with 4
other men who said they just simply hated blacks. Bryant indicated the
event was just a way to celebrate Yuletide, and that he had made the
cross back on Samhain. (Raising Hell: An Encyclopedia of
Devil
Worship and Satanic Crime by Michael Newton )

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1978 Plains Texas Satanist Ricardo Lopez testified in his own
defense to the shootings of his High School Principal Malcolm Omar
Tripp on 05-07-1978. At his trial Lopez told the court, "The shadow
told me to go out and make a human sacrifice because the devil wasn't
pleased with the sacrifices I was making. Lopez, a Schitzophrenic
according to his attorneys, claimed he once "hoped to death" a relative
who died in a tractor accident. He recieved life imprisonment. (The
Galveston Daily News 05-26-1978)

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1978 Havana, Cuba A play depicting the secret rituals of a Santeria
like cult called "Abaqa" is performed before live audiences. The cast
however, wasn't "live" for very long. All 20 cast members of the play
(simply titled Abaqa)
were
hunted down and killed one by one by "persons unknown", apparently by
members of the Abaqua cult who didn't like their secrets being made
public. Even Castro's commie secret police were too scared of the cult
to persue the murders seriously, supposedly wrote all the murders of as
"accidents", and the murderers still remain at large. (Raising Hell: An Encyclopedia of
Devil
Worship and Satanic Crime by Michael Newton )

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1979, The Philippines Police reported that a couple,
whose names were
not disclosed, belonged to a sect which believed that cannibalism
confers supernatural powers, apparently not unlike one in New Guinea.
The couple were charged with murder for "eating" two brothers.The
brothers were kidnapped from a city 650 miles from Manila. They were
allegedly beheaded by members of the sect, then photographs of the
beheadings were taken by a leader of the cult and sent to the widow of
one of the victims. Officials stated it took a long time to bring
charges because witnesses were too fearful of testifying due to fears
of reprisals by the cannibal sect. The Philippines was once
notorious for head hunters and cannibalism, and is believed to have
never completely cleaned itself of such things.

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1979 Fall River, Massachusetts On 10-11-79 17 y.o. Doreen Levesque was
found under some bleachers at Fall River High School.. She had been
bound, her skull crushed, and stabbed. Levesque had been a prostitute
and had a history of drug abuse at age 12. In Jan of 1980, Barbara
Raposa was found dead, also murdered in a similar fashion as Levesque.
Police were tipped off to by a Andre Maltais, 53, to Robin Murphy and
Karen Mardsen, both prostitutes, who accompanied him to the police
station. When questioned by police, Mardsen said her pimp, Carl Drew,
was a “die hard Satanist” and the killer of Levesque. Drew even had
tattoos Satanic symbols and “Satan Avenger” on his arm. This jibed with
info gathered months before the murders by a female undercover officer
who infiltrated a gathering of pimps and hookers, and discovered the
local sex trade scene was into Satanism, including animal sacrifice.
Drew was questioned at one point, bragged about being a Satanist, but
denied his role in the killings. Mardsen later refused to talk to
police, saying Drew had threatened to kill her if she didn’t shut up.
In Feb. Maltais, who had been helpful to the police, seemed to know too
much about Raposa’s killing, and was arrested as a suspect. Police
didn’t buy his story about a “psychic vision”. Then Murphy came
forward, and said Maltais was Raposa’s killer.

Drew made good on his promise to kill
Mardsen. Her
skull was found on 4-14-80. Murphy confessed to police about her roles
in murders, fingering Drew and Maltais and a William Smith in the
process. Murphy pleaded guilty to second degree murder. At the trial,
gruesome details about Satanic rituals and Drew performing necrophilia
on Mardsen’s headless corpse were told to shocked jurors. Maltais
displayed Bibles and pictures of Jesus at the trial, but jurors didn’t
buy it. Drew now denied any occult activity, and had sandpapered his
tattoos off, one of which now simply read “Avengers”.

Murphy
later recanted her story,
and Drew got away with murder. He served 7 years for assaulting
Satanist and prostitute Maureen Sparda, and is back in society. After
serving 24 years, Murphy was parolled to a halfway house in 2004, which
angered relatives of the victim and cops who worked on the case.
Marsden's sister Wendy Alves said, "I shouldn't have to be a prisoner
in my own city or home. I'm terrified that one day I will walk into a
Dunkin' Donuts and there she'll be working behind the
counter".
(AP)

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1979 Ridegfield, CT On 6-10-79 Policeman Michael Passaro was attacked
and assaulted by a Satanic cult. At 2:30 A.M. he was patrolling
Osceleta Road when he stopped his car to investigate a report of
gunshots, strange music and loud noise. He came upon a group
of
individuals wearing black capes and hoods, 4 of them rushed Passaro and
attacked him. He fought off the attackers as he tried to get back to
his patrol car. He finally managed to get them to cease with a can of
Mace and by scaring them away with his siren. The Satanic Organization
of Connecticut was questioned, and denied it was them, claiming it was
probably some renegade members who got kicked out their group. No one
was ever arrested in the incident. (Raising Hell: An Encyclopedia of
Devil Worship and Satanic Crime by Michael Newton )

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1979 West Paterson, New Jersey - The mutilated & bloodless
corpses
of Carol Marron and Howard Green (both known to be openly into the
occult) were found. Carol Marron had told friends a few days
before the murder they were trying to join an O.T.O. group (there are
several groups calling themselves O.T.O., and it's unknown to which she
was referring). The murder appeared to be done as part of an
occult ritual sacrifice and the crime scene evidence
indicated
that there was definately more than one person was involved in the
murder.

Their eyeballs were
blown out, the tips
of their ears cut off and almost all their blood had been drained
through approximately 30 puncture marks made in identical places on the
two bodies, investigators said. A veteran detective commented he had
never seen anything like it in all his years on the force. The two
corpses were bound in canvas and rugs and dumped in West Paterson,
N.J., where they were discovered by a boy walking his dog. A Post
investigation into the double homicide found not only that the trail to
the brutal killer has gone cold, but it may never have been followed
properly. The case is still unsolved. Anyone with any information
should contact the West Patterson Police Dept. at (973) 345-8111. (AP)

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